To begin, you need to make 4
soles. You can make all 4 the same
colour, or you can make 2 soles in
Colour B, fasten off and weave in ends, then make 2 soles in Colour A, do not
fasten off – as follows:

With Colour B: (make 2)

Row 1:
With Colour B, Chain 10; sc in 2nd
ch from hook, and next 7; 3 sc in last
chain. Working on other side of the
chain, sc 8, join to beg sc.

With wrong
sides facing each other, place Colour A sole and Colour B sole together, matching
them up with back of sole to back of sole, front to front, and slip stitch them
together as follows:

First, with
Colour A, slip stitch the top sole (Colour A) to the bottom sole at the centre
of the back of the bootie, by inserting the hook through the middle stitch in
both soles and pulling the yarn through.
Keep the hook on top of both soles, and the yarn underneath.

Matching
stitch for stitch, slip stitch around both soles, drawing the yarn through each
time, around the sole, until you are back at the rear of the sole again. You should now have 40 slip stitches worked
into the soles, and the bottom of the soles should look like this:

Slip stitch
around the edge again once, to bring the yarn back up to the top of the soles,
and working from the outside of the shoe, make 1 sc in each slip stitch from
the previous round. (40 sc).

Note that
you are only picking up the slip stitches you did previously.

When you are
done, the bootie will look like this:

Row 5:
Working again from the outside of the shoe, ch2, hdc in same st, then
hdc around in blo, in both the 2nd and 3rd loops of the
previous sc (this keeps the stitches nice and neat with no long gaps as
sometimes happens with working into the blo).
If you prefer you can simply crochet into blo normally, the end result
is the same, but it will be looser. This
time, sl st into the 1st hdc, not the ch 2 – this will prevent a gap
at the back of the heel.

Make sure at
this point that you have 40 hdc & ch 2 in total.

If you have
veered off the centre of the back of the shoe, now is a good time to sl st back
to the centre st to start the next part.

Row 6: ch2, hdc in same st,
fphdc in next and every st
around. Join to 1st
hdc. (40 sts)

Row 10: Place 2 markers either side of the
front middle 2 fphdc that you have not used to decrease for the past few rows,
attach yarn to next st to the left from the left marker (looking at them from
the front of the bootie). Ch2, fphdc in
each st around to second marker, working 1hdc in space after the last
fphdc. Turn

Row 11: Ch2, hdc in same st, bphdc to end,
work 2hdc in last st, turn

Row 12: ch2, hdc in same st, fphdc to end,
2hdc in last st, turn

Row 13: ch2, hdc in same st, bphdc to end,
2 hdc in last st, turn

Row 14: ch2, hdc in same st, fphdc around,
2hdc in last st, turn

Row 15: ch 1, Sc across to end, 3sc in
corner st, sc down side of front of cuff, across the 2 sts at the front of the
bootie, up the other edge of the cuff, 3 sc in top corner, sl st to beg sc.

Fasten off.
Tidy up ends.

Sew flaps
down with two nice buttons.

Straps:
(Make 2) Ch 15, hdc in 3rd chain from hook, and to end, do not
turn. Sl st around the end of the strap,
then sl st into each unworked loop of the beginning chain, sl st to beg hdc.

Tidy up ends
invisibly and attach the strap onto the buttons.

The strap,
being worked in hdc, can be moved according to the width of baby’s foot.

Row 10: Place 2 markers either side of the
front middle 2 fphdc that you have not used to decrease for the past few rows,
attach yarn to next st to the left from the left marker (looking at them from
the front of the bootie). Ch2, fphdc in
each st around to second marker, working 1hdc in space after the last fphdc. Turn

Row 11: Ch2, hdc in same st bphdc to end,
work 2hdc in last st, turn

Row 12: ch2, hdc in same st, fphdc to end, 2hdc in last st, turn

Row 13: ch2, hdc in same st, bphdc to end,
2 hdc in last st, turn

Row 14: ch2, hdc in same st, fphdc around,
2hdc in last st, turn

Row 15: ch 1, Sc across to end, 3sc in
corner st, sc down side of front of cuff, across the 2 sts at the front of the
bootie, up the other edge of the cuff, 3 sc in top corner, sl st to beg sc.